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2010

All sheet or pane issues have plate numbers in four corners (UL, UR, LL, LR) unless otherwise specified.

The Postmaster General has announced that the first-class rate is expected to remain at 44¢ through 2010.  Some rates for other services are being changed slightly.

44¢ Lunar New Year:  no plate numbers

Mackinaw Bridge, priority mail rate

Bixby Creek Bridge, express mail rate

44¢ Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Snowboarder

44¢ Legends of Hollywood:  Katharine Hepburn

44¢ Distinguished Sailors (Sims, Burke, McCloy, Miller)

44¢ Kate Smith

44¢ Negro Leagues Baseball (Safe at Home; Rube Foster)

44¢ Sunday Funnies (Dennis the Menace; Calvin and Hobbes; Archie; Garfield; Beetle Bailey)

44¢ Black Heritage:  Oscar Micheaux

44¢ Boy Scouts Centennial

44¢ Cowboys of the Silver Screen (Hart, Mix, Autry, Rogers)

44¢ Abstract Expressionists (Hoffman; Rothko; Motherwell; Pollock; Mitchell; Gorky; Gottlieb; de Kooning; Still; Newman)

44¢ Nature of America:  Hawaiian Rain Forest:  No plate numbers

44¢ Animal Rescue

44¢ Love: Pansies in a Basket

44¢ American Treasures:  Winslow Homer, "Boys in the Pasture"

44¢ Literary Arts: Julia de Burgos

44¢ Flags of our Nation IV, coil of 50, ten designs (American Flag with Purple Mountains Majesty, plus Montana through North Dakota, expected to be assigned reserved Scott numbers 4303-4312):  plate number on the Purple Mountains Majesty stamp (Scott 4303)

Scott is expected to assign a minor catalog number for a strip of 5, starting with the stamp with the plate number; a second minor catalog number for the remaining strip of 5; and a minor number for a strip of 10 starting with the stamp with the plate number.  A plate strip of 11 with the plate number in the center stamp will be listed but not assigned a catalog number.

44¢ Holiday Evergreens (Ponderosa Pine; Eastern Red Cedar; Balsam Fir; Blue Spruce), expected in booklet and ATM format and perhaps others

44¢ Christmas 2010:  Madonna of the Candelabra

$15 Federal Hunting Permit stamp, self-adhesive die cut (Scott RW77):  No plate numbers

$15 Duck stamp, pane of 1 (Scott RW77A):  No plate numbers

$15 Duck stamp, artist-signed souvenir sheet of 1 (Scott RW77b):  No plate numbers

Additional topics, expected but not officially announced:

Additional "Forever" stamps

Official coil stamp, first class rate

Postponed:

44¢ Edward Hopper, "The Long Leg" was cut from the 2009 program for economic reasons.  USPS still plans to issue it, but no sooner than at least 2011 since the 2010 stamp subject was already announced.

44¢ Angel with Lute

The plate number information appearing on this page has been contributed by APNSS members Jim Ragsdale, Jim Cochrane and Rick Burdsall.

A complete listing and valuation of plate numbers, positions and other marginal markings will appear in the next edition of the Hebert's Catalog of Plate Number Singles.

Comments?  Suggestions?  New plate number to report?  Email the Webmaster at secretary at apnss dot org 

This page last updated November 13, 2009.

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